Membrane toxicity of linear alcohol ethoxylates

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 2767-2774

  Müller, Markus T ^a   Zehnder, Alexander J B ^b   Escher, Beate I ^b  

^a Swiss Fed Inst Mat Test Res   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Critical membrane residues Lethal body burden; Linear alcohol ethoxylates; Membrane toxicity; Quantitative structure activity relationship

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL DERIVATIVE; ETHOXYALCOHOL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HYDROPHOBICITY; MEMBRANE DAMAGE; MICELLE; NONHUMAN; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; RHODOBACTER; TOXICITY TESTING; TOXIN STRUCTURE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); RHODOBACTER; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES;

EID: 0040376292     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/etc.5620181217     Document Type: Article

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